The Bled with I Am Messenger and The Paramedic

Jan. 11 • The Mad Hatter

Over the past nine years, The Bled has lived up to its name in more
ways than one. The Tucson Post-Hardcore quintet formed in 2001,
initially billing itself as the Radiation Defiance Theory and then
almost immediately (and wisely) shortening it to The Bled. A pair of
EPs within their first year raised the band’s profile, making them a
hot local club draw and ultimately leading to the band signing with
Miami’s Fiddler Records.

On the eve of recording their debut full-length, frontman Adam Goss
opted out of the band and recommended James Munoz to take his spot.
With Munoz at the mic, The Bled recorded 2003’s Pass the Flask and
began touring nationwide for the first time, gaining positive notices
for their Metal/Math/Hardcore diversity.

After changing labels and bassists, The Bled recorded its sophomore
album, Found in the Flood, for Vagrant Records; the album cracked
Billboard’s Top 100 and earned the band a slot on the Vagrant stage at
2006’s Warped Tour.

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In 2007, The Bled released a third full-length,
Silent Treatment, and toured with My Chemical Romance, Taking Back
Sunday, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Linkin Park, among others.

At the end of that run, the band members announced that they were
taking a lengthy break from the road. Finding themselves mired in debt,
The Bled’s members took day jobs and outside band gigs to make ends
meet; three members ultimately left the band, leaving only Munoz and
original guitarist Jeremy Ray Talley.

The arrival of new members was tempered by the band losing their
Vagrant deal, but The Bled announced last November its signing with
Rise Records and its fourth album, Heat Fetish, which will be released
in February.

They’ve done their share of bleeding but they’ll never be desanguinated
completely — The Bled has plenty more where that came from.

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